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Coventry police last night spoke to a man whom they believe made a threatening phone call that prompted a police search, the closing of some area streets and the locking down of some area schools.

Yesterday a man identifying himself as William Otte called the police and said he wanted to speak with his mother-in-law's boyfriend, according to Coventry Chief of Police Ronald DaSilva.

The man said he was armed and waiting at a salvage yard on the New London Turnpike. "I don't know what he was thinking when he called," DaSilva said.

The road was shut down and SWAT teams and K-9 units searched the area, but Otte was nowhere to be found.

Now, DaSilva said, the police believe Otte may have been out of town. When he spoke to the police last night, he said he was with his wife, out of state.

DaSilva said the police do not know where Otte is, but that he and his wife are "fine."

The next step, DaSilva said, is waiting to talk to Otte again.

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